“Portland is not on fire or bombed out,” Oregonlive.com reported Friday, fact-checking claims made at President Donald Trump’s “antifa roundtable” earlier in the week to justify sending troops to the city. Drew Sheneman leads this week’s editorial cartoon gallery with “Tales from the front: Portland edition” showing a couple of soldiers relating their encounters with unicycles, Voodoo Doughnuts, bagpipes and kombucha.

In real life, deployment of the Oregon National Guard was on hold while a federal appeals court deliberated whether to overturn a district judge’s temporary order halting it. Protesters donned inflatable animal costumes, making sport of Trump’s inaccurate depiction of a city “burning to the ground.”

Mike Luckovich picks up the theme by showing Fourth of July fireworks re

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